Vertical Lighting and one Horizontal Above ...

digging

digging

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I am setting up a 8 site UnderCurent RDWC grow with 60 inch centres and 11 of 1000 watt vertical bare bulbs.

How much benefit would there be to have an additional 1000 watt hung horizontally over each of the 8 plant sites.

Cooling is not an issue for the 8 additional 1000 watts hung over head.

Thanks for your help and insight
 
verticalgrow

verticalgrow

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digging said:
I am setting up a 8 site UnderCurent RDWC grow with 60 inch centres and 11 of 1000 watt vertical bare bulbs.

How much benefit would there be to have an additional 1000 watt hung horizontally over each of the 8 plant sites.

Cooling is not an issue for the 8 additional 1000 watts hung over head.

Thanks for your help and insight
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Thats a great question & ttystik will have the best answer :weed::leaf:

An extra 1000w or 2 on a light rail would kick alot of ass
 
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LOFT

LOFT

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digging said:
I am setting up a 8 site UnderCurent RDWC grow with 60 inch centres and 11 of 1000 watt vertical bare bulbs.

How much benefit would there be to have an additional 1000 watt hung horizontally over each of the 8 plant sites.

Cooling is not an issue for the 8 additional 1000 watts hung over head.

Thanks for your help and insight
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I cant see it not being beneficial!!
 
Craig1969SS

Craig1969SS

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I do it and still rotate the plants. This way you develop the top like normal and also everything underneath. Lots of light and it's well used. Mine are doing fantastic
 
digging

digging

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Thanks for sharing. Have you done any comparisons, one with the overhead light and one without ?
 
Craig1969SS

Craig1969SS

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My 3-4 best and oldest get overhead and vertical and the vertical that grow the best replace those under the hoods as they go to harvest. I have a 300 watt led the lights the back of one so it's covered on all sides. I switch it up as the plants grow.
 
Craig1969SS

Craig1969SS

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Oh and no I haven't compared I'm just trying it out this time. I have the light to plant ratio so why not. I had 3 125 watt cfl's in there too but they look so dim and the damn cords get in the way
 
digging

digging

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I would like to open a further discussion about this please :)

If one was using 1000 watt vertical bare bulb, what amount of wattage horizontally could be used before overkill / saturation would happen ?

Could one use the Gavita 1000 De horizontally in addition to the 1000 watt bare bulb vertically ?

Has anyone experimented with both vertical and horizontal lighting together ?

Please do share, thanks
 
m4s73r

m4s73r

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Your lighting should match the canopy your growing. There does become a point where more light has a diminishing return. So realistically you only need 50 watts per sq foot. So measure out your canopy. You have 11 1k lights for 8 plants. And talking about 8 more. so 19,000 watts. So that should light up a canopy that is 380 sq feet. So roughly a 21'x21' canopy. The 11 you have now should do 220 sq ft or a 15x15' canopy.

I dont know what your set up looks like or anything. But there are some parameters to decide if you need more light, if you need to move your lights, or you need to use the light you have more efficiently.
 
Craig1969SS

Craig1969SS

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Dutch passion white widow. She's getting overhead 600mh and 1000hps bare bulb vert. Started off as a plant that was always nursing hind tit, behind the rest. The last 3 weeks have been wild how she has transformed. Nothing was changed in feedings but wow have those buds thickened up and turned on, bottom to top. I have a jack Herer next to her that seems to be a month behind, but it's the same age. I know that strain can run long from what I've read, never grew it before. Anyone else have experience with jack?
 

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digging

digging

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After much reading and lots of thought going into my dilemma, I have decided on running 1000 watt bare bulbs vertically and 600 watt Gavita DE hung horizontally overhead.

In doing this, I am going to keep the vertical bare bulbs a little lower as to allow the power of horizontal lights to penetrate down into the tree.

Thanks for everyone's comments and insights :)
 
BreenGuds

BreenGuds

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Is that bud foxtailing? I had a plant do that before, I believe it is a symptom of heat stress.
Nice looking buds. I've been thinking about removing the hood on my light to try a vert grow.
 
BreenGuds

BreenGuds

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Nice description. Yea it could be the strain also, which I'm assuming it is if it's the entire plant. The foxtailing I saw was in certain areas.
 
BreenGuds

BreenGuds

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I'm liking the idea of vertical growing. Taking the hood off my lamp and using all the light it has to offer. After my current grow I'm going to give it a shot I think.
 
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NorthernKind

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I made an acct just to post here. Lol. Yes it will work great. I use. 1k bare bulb vert, and a second one in a hood horizontal with glass removed. I also use hydro flood and drain buckets mixed with some deep water tech. My brain bucket it ontop of a 4" piece thick of styrofoam so more water stays in each individual pot. 7' tall trees indoors is a good thing. Btw I have 9 plants around the very bulb. 8 will probably be a better number imo. Been rocking this setup for sometime now, and it's giving me great results compared to the single very bulb.
 
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